Late in the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Jews read the Book of Jonah, the story of the recalcitrant prophet who wanted his words of warning to go unheeded. There's a lesson here for the current situation ...

Today, I want to look at a snapshot of the life of a prophet of God by the name of Jonah. Jonah was given an assignment by God to go and preach to the people of the sinful city of Nineveh. Nineveh was ...

(RNS) — Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, took place last Thursday, giving us Jews our annual opportunity to think about the prophet Jonah, whose book the rabbis assign us to read as the 25-hour fast ...

As Yom Kippur draws to a close, we read the deceptively simple book of Jonah. Three themes tie this all-too-relevant story together: the emptiness of self-absorption, the possibility that those who ...

Jonah is a remarkable prophet. He is more than a forecaster of God’s revelations, more than a preacher of persistent patience, or impending wrath. To readers, Christian, Jewish, and even Muslim, his ...

Despite its placement in the twilight hours of the Yom Kippur service, many of us are familiar with the Book of Jonah. Called on by God, Jonah is instructed to go to Nineveh and urge the people to ...

Did you ever ask yourself what would the Book of Jonah have looked like, had Jonah done what he was supposed to? There would have been no story. At most, a little rhyming poem, going something like ...

Is there a more singular, better known, or more beloved prophet than Jonah? In him we recognize both the humanity in greatness and the greatness in human frailty. Called by the Lord to speak to the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of the most entertaining Old Testament prophetic characters is Jonah – yes, the man who reportedly spent three days in the belly of ...